The Red Pill

Can't give zero stars so I'll compromise at one. Paul Elam? Are you serious. I would put money on any positive reviews for this propaganda piece coming entirely from inside the "men's rights" or "red pill" subreddits desperate to have anyone give validity to their "movement", which never seems to include any actual advocacy but plenty of hate of feminism. I wish, for the sake of all men that "men's rights" was actually anything other than the first stage of soft recruitment for the alt right.

This movie is full of misleading stats, all with the same nauseating slant: the feminist movement, according to the Red Pill, is unfairly focused on women, and women's rights. Instead, feminism should concern itself equally with men's suffering, rights, and persecution. Here's the thing, guys...everything is already about you. Feminism is an attempt to gain equality, in a world where you have all of the power, and all of the priveledge. An example of this, in stats: The Red Pill states that men have higher rates of being murdered than women. But when you look up stats on who the perpetrators are, about 80% of the MURDERERS are men. The same is true for men who died serving in war. MEN are the ones not allowing women to serve, resulting in fewer female deaths. The Red Pill also states that there are no US men's shelters, noting that men are equally victims of domestic violence. And yet, again, men are perpetrators of 80% of homicides. Women's shelters are necessary to keep women ALIVE. Poorly constructed documentaries do not change the fact that women are paid less than men. They are raped and murdered BY men at staggering levels. And your lack of empathy about it is embarrassing.

This is a shameful disservice to people who are rightly angry about suicide rates, dangers at work, violence, alienation from childcare, and poverty. If you want actual analysis and the ways in which the constructions of gender, race and class impact people in specific ways, this ain't it. Unintentionally exposes what's at the heart of 'men's rights' movement: confusion and fear about one's place in the world. Poorly made and with all the intellectual rigour of Ancient Aliens. Men deserve better